Synopsis
July 1936, Xi'an. After the national security agent "Zhulong" dies in the line of duty, he transmigrates into "Lu Shitou," a useless fringe member of the Fuxing Society, a sixteen-year-old orphan who just hanged himself.
Using his modern skills as an agent, he sees through a counter-surveillance trap during a tailing assignment, going from expendable pawn to a piece on Station Chief Zhou Shouzheng's board. But he soon discovers he's stumbled into a game far more unfathomable than the power struggles within the Military Statistics Bureau. The captured CCP emissary, Qin Yuanshan, is the Japanese spy "Qingtong"; Deputy Station Chief Mr. Feng is a Japanese military mole planted inside the Bureau; and behind Nanjing's secret order to hand over the prisoner lies an encrypted message addressed to Dai Li.
More astonishingly, another transmigrator appears in Xi'an: a backup agent for "Zhulong." The two work together, one in the open and one in the shadows, to close the net. The real catch is a confidential secretary who has been lying low at Dai Li's side for three years.
With irrefutable proof that Mr. Feng is working with Japan, the double agent Qin Yuanshan captured alive, and a secret contact channel to Yan'an established, Lin Feng dances on a knife's edge amid the Fuxing Society, the Military Statistics Bureau, the CCP underground, and Japan's Kempeitai. The Xi'an Incident that will change everything is only four months away.
He has only one goal: to go from a disposable pawn to the player no one dares touch.
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